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NewsAI and Automated ships pose new challenges in casualty liability
Artificial Intelligence and the advent of automated ships will pose difficult questions in determining liability under the Hague Rules for maritime casualties, the 2022-2023 chairman of the Association of Average Adjusters has cautioned.
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EU attempts to promote recycling risk perverse consequences: opinion
Shipowners are unlikely to welcome well-intentioned plans to promote domestic steel recycling chains in the EU. Outside Turkey, no large scale ship-based recycling chains exist in Europe, and yards cannot afford automation to offset labour costs disparities.
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Positioning Nor-Shipping at the heart of the maritime economy
One of the enduring paradoxes of Nor-Shipping is how it manages to offer visitors access to the latest developments in a wide range of maritime sectors, while maintaining its welcoming collegiate atmosphere.
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Is The Shipping Industry Ready For Europe’s Cap And Trade Rule?
Following the formal approval of the EU’s emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) by the European Parliament, shipowners are now mandated to submit verified emissions data for all voyages that start or end at an EU port from 2024. But is the roll out of the carbon cap-and-trade scheme to the sector an important component in the fight to curtail carbon emissions or just another financial hit?
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Accelleron’s Christoph Rofka sees upcoming changes in the turbocharging market
Christoph Rofka, Accelleron’s president Medium & Low Speed products and VP Communications at CIMAC, discusses changes that are affecting the wider maritime propulsion market, and Accelleron’s response in an exclusive interview with The Motorship
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Battery power to breakthrough in ice
An ABB study based on three years of operational ship data mounts the compelling case for integrating battery power onboard modern icebreakers, Samuli Hänninen, who specializes in icebreaking vessels at ABB Marine & Ports, tells The Motorship.
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Shrinking mature CCS systems without increasing parasitic energy requirements
Tamara de Gruyter of Wärtsilä discusses the challenges of balancing footprint, solvent and energy requirements when marinising carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology for onboard CCS systems, and calls for regulators to bear CCS technology in mind during MEPC80 discussions
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FuelEU Maritime rune reading
The dust has barely settled on the draft agreement of the EU’s FuelEU Maritime legislation, which has seen difficult issues surrounding the admissibility of carbon-based fuels, the range of renewable fuels of non biological origin (RFNBO), certification and the allocation of funding resolved.
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Nanotech Key To EGR and CO2 Reduction Advances
FuelSave, the Germany-based technology developer behind the FuelSave+ combustion optimisation product, is in the process of patenting a new development for exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) solutions, breaking new grounds in emission reduction to not only reduce NOX emissions but also reduce CO2 emissions in an after treatment process.
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Carbon capture opens the door to negative CO2 emissions: Hånell
Regulators need to make appropriate choices to avoid penalising first movers like Stena Bulk, Erik Hånell, president and CEO of Stena Bulk tells The Motorship
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KM's Garen sees the power of positive thinking
Rune Garen uses his business development role at Kongsberg to pose some difficult questions
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Sharing The Benefits Of Clean Technology
Split incentives between charterers and shipowners remain a barrier to clean technology uptake, but not an insurmountable one, says Simon Potter, director of sustainability advisory at independent design and engineering consultancy, Houlder
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Putting the nuclear opportunity for shipping into context: ABS
Refreshed technologies hold promise in addressing shipping’s clean energy needs, but solutions won’t emerge in the short term, writes Patrick Ryan, VP, Technology, ABS
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Digitalisation solutions and hydrogen broaden GTT’s focus areas
GTT, the LNG containment specialist, is expanding its strategic focus to include digitalisation solutions as well as hydrogen solutions, Anouar Kiassi, GTT’s vice president of Digital & Information explains to The Motorship in an exclusive interview.
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MAN ES AEngine tests scheduled for H1 2023
Thomas Hansen, head of two-stroke promotion and customer support at MAN Energy Solutions reveals MAN ES plans to soft-launch the Ammonia engine (AEngine) development programme in an exclusive interview with The Motorship.
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Scaling up means much more than technological validation
Pilot projects are only part of the challenge of scaling up cleantech developments, Haavard Tvedte, head of public affairs of Maritime CleanTech tells The Motorship in an exclusive interview.
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Decarbonisation Funding Will Require Institutional Investors
Tony Foster, CEO and CIO of Marine Capital discusses the challenges of attracting outside investment into the decarbonisation of the UK’s short-sea sector.
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Business models to influence tech choices: viewpoint
2023 promises to be a momentous year for the shipping industry.
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How Maersk’s TradeLens did not spark shipping’s digital revolution
At the end of November, Maersk announced it was shuttering TradeLens, the cargo platform co-developed with IBM, which once promised to revolutionise the way cargoes moved around by leveraging the distributed ledger system, blockchain.
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Allow the market to support the decarbonisation journey: ABS’ Plevrakis
Georgios Plevrakis, ABS Vice President, Global Sustainability discusses carbon pricing and its effect on the maritime sector in an exclusive interview with The Motorship at SMM in September 2022.
